Billy Taylor - Eight Classic Albums: 1955-1962 (CD)

This 4CD boxset features music from the golden era of this superb musician and composer's long musical career, comprising as it does eight original albums first released between the mid-1950s and the early-1960s. Serving as an ideal introduction to Taylor's music, as well as a first class collection of his best work, this set will delight all those who take the time to listen.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. CD - a Touch of Taylor
2. Ever So Easy
3. Radioactivity
4. A Bientot
5. Long Tom
6. Day Dreaming
7. Live It Up
8. Purple Mood
9. Early Bird
10. Blue Clouds
11. It's a Grand Night for Swinging
12. Memories of Spring
13. Daddy-O
14. One for Fun - Original CD Title
15. Summertime
16. One for Fun
17. That's for Sure
18. A Little Southside Soul
19. Blue Moon
20. Makin' Whoopee
21. Poiniana
22. At Long Last Love
23. When Lights Are Low

Disc: 2

1. Billy Taylor with Four Flutes - Original CD Title
2. The Song Is Ended
3. Back Home
4. St. Thomas
5. Oh Lady, Be Good
6. No Parking
7. Koolbongo
8. Blue Shutters
9. One for the Woofer
10. How About You?
11. Uptown - Original CD Title
12. La Petie Mambo
13. Jordu
14. Just the Thought of You
15. Soul Sisters
16. Moanin'
17. Warm Blue Stream
18. Biddy's Beat
19. Cu-Blu
20. S'wonderful

Disc: 3

1. Warming Up!
2. Warming Up
3. Easy Like
4. That's Where It Is
5. Afterthoughts
6. Easy Walker
7. Lonesome Lover
8. Don't Bug Me
9. Coffee Break
10. Ya Know What I Mean
11. Native Dancer
12. Uncle Fuzzy
13. No Aftertaste
14. Interlude - Original CD Title
15. You Tempt Me
16. Did You Dream Too
17. You're All That Matters
18. Interlude
19. You're Mine
20. My Heart Sings
21. I Sigh
22. Here Today Gone Tomorrow Love
23. All Alone

Disc: 4

1. Kwamina - Original CD Title
2. Something Big
3. I'm Seeing Rainbows
4. Ordinary People
5. The Cocoa Bean Song
6. What's Wrong with Me
7. Nothing More to Look Forward to
8. Another Time, Another Place
9. Happy Is the Cricket
10. Sun Is Beginning to Crow
11. Impromptu - Original CD Title
12. Capricious
13. Impromptu
14. Don't Go Down South
15. Muffle Guffle
16. Free ; Oozy
17. Paraphrase
18. Empty Ballroom
19. At la Carousel